Directed by:
Hal AshbyScreenplay:
Robert TowneCinematography:
Michael ChapmanComposer:
Johnny MandelCast:
Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Luana Anders, Nancy Allen, Michael Chapman, Peter Foldy, Gilda Radner (more)VOD (1)
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Two hard-boiled career petty officers, Buddusky (Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young), are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows (Randy Quaid), from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight year sentence for a trivial offense. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking to Meadows and are determined to show him a good time on their journey north. Their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blind drunk in their hotel room. In New York, they tangle with some Marines, and in Boston, Buddusky takes Meadows to a brothel for his first sexual experience. Finally, after reluctantly turning in Meadows, Buddusky and Mulhall realize they are as much prisoners of their own world as Meadows now is of his. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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A brilliant satire of American society in the 1970s. Jack Nicholson was already a great actor able to utter and perform all the sins of the world while we just watch him entranced. Randy Quaid is also excellent in his role of a young man giving up a life of freedom in an overall straightforward, well-scripted comedy that really doesn't pull any punches.
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